GR80s

Events at the Onassis Stegi in the context of the exhibition GR80s: "Greece of the ’80s at Technopolis".

Greece in the 80s at the Onassis Stegi: Our photographs

“Back when film had to be developed”
Photography exhibition curated by Spyros Staveris
17 February – 12 April | Exhibition Hall -1 | 12:00-23:00 | Free admission

The ’80s through photo albums: The audiences of Onassis Stegi responded to our call, and sent us photographs and films from parties, school celebrations, nights out, cultural events, excursions, birthdays, Easter and Christmas, and weddings. Fashion, human relations, the mentality and the customs of the decade are exhibited as you have portrayed them through your own lenses.

80s Opening Party in association with six d.o.g.s

17 February | Exhibition Hall -1 | 21:00 | Free admission

Remember the songs you used to listen to on repeat and dance the night away to them at an eclectic 80s party in the Onassis Stegi exhibition space in collaboration with six d.o.g.s. The Greek 80s wasn’t just disco and it wasn’t just Greek pop, either. It was New Wave, it was punk, and it was metal. The nation’s dance floors were awash with stilettos and carnations, but Greek teenagers were at home wearing out the play/rewind buttons on their cassette decks beneath Dark Wave posters and round their friends’ houses setting the synths alight. All that and the rest--rock, instrumental, metal, lyrics Greek and English--will provide the soundtrack for an evening every bit as eclectic as the decade it’s dedicated to. Ten disk jockeys with the Eighties in their blood will be manning the decks for 45 minutes each from 21:00 till dawn, covering a huge range of music, playing most of it on authentic vinyl. Songs produced in Greece between 1980 and 1989, some obvious but others that will surprise you, will revive the musical spirit of an era which has been loved, sung about and misunderstood like few others, Disk Jockeys: Vouno / Cult Invaders / Theodosis Michos / Mr. Z / Dimitris Papaioannou / Makis Papasimakopoulos / Elena Falirea / Fantastikoi Ichoi / Felizol.

Escape from the 80s – Escape Room at the Onassis Stegi

24 February – 12 April | Exhibition Hall -1 | Weekdays 19:00-21:00, Sat-Sun 12:00- 23:00
Tickets: 7 € per person for groups of 2-3 and 6 € per person for groups of 4-5
Click here to book your tickets | Prebooking infotickets@onassis.org & +30 213 017 8036

Take yourselves back to the Eighties with this interactive game-experience. Go back in time and find something you thought of as hugely important in the Eighties but have been ignoring ever since...
For groups of 2-5
Curated by: Paradox Project

Dj and club culture in 80s Greece

Exhibition Hall | Free admission
17 March: Dj Petros Bratakos Disco Barbarella | Talk: 20:00-21:00 & Dj Set: 21:00-23:00
7 April: Dj Nicola Lavacca | Talk: 20:00-21:00 & Dj Set: 21:00-23:00

Revival of the dj booth of the legendary disco Barbarella. Discussions with leading djs of the period and dj sets (Curated by Black Athena & Giorgos Markatas).

A series of events under the title “Dj and Club Culture in Greece in the 80s in the context of GR80s: Greece of the 80s at the Onassis Stegi”, takes us through what happened from the beginning of the decade up until the time when the disco ‘Aytokinisi’ was turned into one of the largest clubs in the country. Live discussions with important djs of the time, talks by specialists on club culture, dj sets inspired by the decade of disco, and a unique installation will take place at the exhibition area of Onassis Stegi, transporting us to the Athenian big dance floors of the 80s.

A conversation about Eurobasket 1987

10 March | Main Stage | 20:00 | Free admission

What were you doing in June 1987? Do the phrases “one plus one shot”, “the Greek team’s in the lead again”, or “our qualification’s now in the hands of this honourable giant” remind you of anything? In association with Panagis Panagiotopoulos and Vasilis Vamvakas and the collaboration of journalists, sports writers and professional athletes (including Antonis Panoutsos, Dimitris Theodoropoulos and Panagiotis Menegos), a conversation about the unforgettable Eurobasket 1987 tournament thirty years on.

Organized & Curated by: Afroditi Panagiotakou, Elisavet Panatzi, Konstantina Soulioti

"The way they lived": Life in the 80s as captured by 80s cinema

3 March and 1 April | Exhibition Hall -1 | Free admission on a first come, first served basis (with numbered admission tickets available from one hour before the start of each screening).

A look at the way people lived in the ‘80s through films that eschewed fantasy and other periods to focus firmly on the there and then. Eighties heroes and protagonists and films which now serve to document an era (however fictional their plots may have been), with the American cinema leading the way as the most recognizable and most influential on contemporary pop culture.
Curation & texts: Ilias Frangoulis

The screenings are made possible by the generous support of the Embassy of the United States in Athens.

It's Bingo Night: The 80s Edition!

31 March | Ground Floor Bar | 20:00 | Free admission

Play Bingo, answer questions on the ’80s, and sing your favorite ‘refrain’ in karaoke.
Curated by Elias Frangoulis
The 80’s looks are sponsored by INGLOT.

Retro-Technology Workshops | Exhibition Hall

Our two workshops, Retro Gaming and Analogue Hacking, create a technological and aesthetic journey to the ’80s, using technologies of the twenty-first century.

Digital Wednesday:

Digital Wednesday: "Video Game Aesthetics from the 80s to today" | 22 February | 19:00
Digital Wednesday: "Aesthetics and Society in Computer Gaming since the 80s" | 22 February 2017 | 19:00 |

Digital Wednesday (22 February 2017 at 19:00) “Aesthetics and Society in Computer Gaming since the 80s” with Pavlos Papapavlou and Dimitris Trakas, Renia Papathanasiou and Christina Chrysanthopoulou will explore the influence 80s video games have had on the current aesthetic and the socio-economic and technological evolution of the gaming industry.

Five-Day Retro Gaming Workshop | 10, 11, 12, 18, 19 March 2017 | Exhibition Hall

The Onassis Stegi is organizing a five-day workshop on Retro Gaming. Taking the two-dimensional graphics, pixels and chiptunes of the 80s as its starting point, the workshop invites participants to design and implement contemporary games with a retro aesthetic. Over an intense five days, workshop attendees will form small creative teams, familiarize themselves with contemporary development tools like Unity, and develop a new video game.
With: ViRA (Dimitris Trakas, Renia Papathanasiou, Christina Chrysanthopoulou)

Schedule
10 March | 18:30-20:30 - Introduction: Historical Overview, Game Design Practices
11 March | 10:00-18:30 - Unity Basics: Grahics PART I, Physics, Animation, Audio / Sound Design
12 March | 10:00-18:30 - Creating and importing 2D & 3D assets: Graphics PART II, UI, Programming
18 March | 10:00-18:30 - Workshop
19 March | 10:00-19:00 - Workshop and Presentations

Requirements: Participants will need or bring their own laptops and headphones. Participation is free but full attendance is required

Two-Day Analogue Video Hacking Workshop | 8 and 9 April 2017 | 10:00-17:00 | Exhibition hall -1

On April 8-9, John Richards, professor of Music Technology at De Montfort University, Leicester, is coming to familiarize us with analogue video hacking. An ever-growing segment of listeners and artists alike are returning to analogue (signal, video and sound) and experimenting with digital practices in an analogue environment. What is an analogue signal and how can we process it? How can we ‘interfere with’ analogue media like video and audio cassettes and analogue radio signals? Do we have what we need to build ‘bridges’ between analogue and digital technology? How can we build analogue devices to mix cassettes and VCR? Over the weekend, we will familiar ourselves with analogue culture; process sounds, images and signals; learn about analogue devices from another era; and embark on a dialogue with the Eighties in search of an aesthetic for our own era of artificial intelligence and the Internet of Things. The results of the workshop will be presented to the public on the last day.

Curated by Prodromos Tsiavos, Iraklis Papatheodorou
With: Jonh Richards

Requirements: The workshop will be held in English. Participants will have to bring a 9V PP3 battery and old videotapes, preferably from the 80s. Participation is free but full attendance is required.

DJ Petros Bratakos

On 17 March, as part of the ongoing “GR80s” exhibition, Onassis Stegi welcomes the iconic DJ, Petros Bratakos of “Barbarella” disco fame, to talk about his work and play an eclectic set. DJ Petros Bratakos charts the Athens-by-night of the late 70s and Plaka’s Apollon disco through to the heyday of the “Barbarella” in the 80s. Along the way, he’ll be talking about Athens’ discos and record shops, the legendary “Fire Island” in New York, the mixers and decks, beat mixing, catalogue numbers and the endless vinyl. Ground zero for Greek club and DJ culture from someone who was there, spinning discs in the DJ booth.

DJ Nicola Lavacca

As one of the Eighties’ leading DJs and tastemakers, Nicola Lavacca produced all manner of collections, mixtapes and important remixes. On Friday 7 April, DJ Nicola Lavacca will be talking about his personal journey from Oil-Crisis Italy to the Athenian discos of 1977, his move to New York in the early 80s, and his legendary disco sets at the “Divina” and, later, the “Autokinisi”. He’ll also be playing a unique DJ set at the Onassis Stegi.